Owning your own home

I like this answer.

Not gonna be able to run my angle grinder off that though am I? :)

"Also it’s worthy to note that there should be no 240V sockets in the bathroom at all."

I don't know who's right. What I do know is that the country I grew up in has less shit laws when it comes to electricity in bathrooms.

But giant spiders!

Hot tip: It's the little ones you need to be careful of.

Well I decided that SE26, SE25 and BR3 weren't doing it for me so went full TN.

The regs DO allow standard plugs but would require 3m to the sink/bath. If you had that space you'd likely have a utility 😁

Forget what the Tories say about European rules being foisted on us, we wrote most of the electrical ones and have been major contributors to all the updates upto 2016. Englanders love a rule.

Wasps nest hiding under the tiles by a valley in our roof. Worth getting rid with pesticide or just leave it? They haven't bothered us so far, no evidence to suggest they will get into to the internal spaces.

If they aren't bothering you leave it. Ecosystems need wasps.

They are such twats tho

I don't know who's right. What I do know is that the country I grew up in has less shit laws when it comes to electricity in bathrooms.

Not sure how committed to the UK I'd be if I had a passport for Australia.

I'm not committed to the UK. Place is a shithole. I'm just stripping it of resources before fucking off somewhere better.

stripping it of resources

Shit, you're going to eat the whole island aren't you.

You've found the real reason I want a deep-fryer in my bathroom.

Being told asbestos potentially in roof, wallpaper and Lino of the house we are supposed to be buying . Surveyor says gets a survey at £500 . But question is - what costs to remove it ? House needs complete refrain so big chance that most of the ceilings / walls will probably end up falling down / need some work . 1940s house that has not had a refit at all :( Big problem or not . Any thoughts appreciated

If it's a homebuyers survey of "may" I'd flip a coin to make a decision on whether to bother.

Personally I'd decide if you'd be ripping the stuff out anyway and use the 500 towards that

Surveyor says gets a survey at £500

That sounds really high. I'm pretty sure we paid <£100.

We just paid around £300 for a survey - we went for the 'refurbishment' as opposed to 'management' one which is supposedly a little more invasive but I'm not sure there'd be much in it.

How much it would cost to remedy depends on where it is and what you do with it - if it is in the wallpaper (we got told ours probably contained it, but it didn't) that will probably be something you could remove yourself if you followed the correct procedure.

We paid a ridiculous amount (c£600) for a bath panel, a cement panel cupboard lining and some broken roof tiles from the garage roof that were scattered in the garden to be removed - but we had no choice because we had a bath issue that needed fixing and some companies couldn't even quote for the work for three weeks.

There are companies that do asbestos surveys, companies that do removal, and those that do both - I was a little skeptical of the latter so I got a testing-only company to do the tests just in case the others "find" things that they then need to remove.

Presumably more than 2 weeks ago though so that’s £500 now.

Inflation innit

Edit: @hugo7

Thanks all definitely a minefield . Wondering whether it is just one of these things , where a lot of house have it / had it , but no one talks about it . Imagine there were loads of refurb back in the days where the old stuff was taken out . Hmm - will talk to a builder ..

Exactly that I think - in our street, all the houses had asbestos bath panels and cupboards at some point. Any garages added before the 80s then would have had asbestos roof panels too.

Some would have been removed as part of standard renovations, many in a way that we know now to have been dangerous and unsuitable.

I think it's rarer now because it's less common to find a house that hasn't been redone at some point in the post-asbestos era.

You can buy asbestos testing kits online for cheap, take a sample and send it off. Check if your local council has any way of disposing of it, we can around here just has to be taken to the right place and double bagged.

Thanks all, postcode is se20 and will have a look at council setup

Maybe I missed something, but we're talking about asbestos testing right? Not the cost of surveys (Fwiw iirc our main survey was in a discounted deal by our lender for £500).

Yes it was 2016, but I'm sure I shared the company with someone in the last year or two and it wasn't that sort of number.

I can't remember all the details, but there was a charge of £x for the first sample and then something like £20 for each additional one.

I guess I'm just saying shop around. It's not a complicated thing to do.

city of london hazardous waste collection takes a small amount for free...it covers CR7 so pretty close to you...but obv you have to get stuff tested first...

Five months into the selling process, less than a month before our completion date, and my buyer has just come to me asking for a price cut because her solicitor has given her incorrect information about a major works happening in my flat.

I am so exhausted.

Fuck and off spring to mind